comparison of NilClass with Time failed (only fails with other blogs)

[infominer33]

this is a fun one

This feed http://dustycloud.org/blog/index.xml produces this error
*** error: comparison of NilClass with Time failed

but only fails when I run it together with all of the other feeds... run on its own with no other blogs in the .ini file, works fine.

This is the obnoxiously long debug log:
https://github.com/Identosphere/identity-blogcatcher/raw/master/weirdbug.txt
This is the site that causes fail not failing on its own.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Identosphere/identity-blogcatcher/master/weirdnotbug.txt

not sure what I'm expecting here, but I spent so much time chasing this down, I couldn't not report

[geraldb]

Thanks for reporting the error. Cheers.

[infominer33]

ok, I figured out finally this happens with a blog that doesn't have a published date.

I went to a sqlite browser and found the offending entries, but I do noticed they had other date formats saved in the database such as "updated"

so ideally pluto would check other possibilities, instead of failing when there is no published date

[geraldb]

Thanks for the update. If possible can you post the web feed entry that would really help (including makeing a test case / unit so it won't happen again).

The date uses fallbacks - see https://github.com/feedreader/pluto/blob/master/pluto-models/lib/pluto/models/item.rb#L43 but sure there are way too many different dates so it is hard to say what date causes the problem. Maybe it is just a bug in the template (merge) and not in the feed fetcher. Sorry I can only speculate. All the best. Cheers. Prosit 2023!